Happy New Year!!! Let’s hope that the 2014 election season puts an end to Progressive rule in our country. We will paint the country red AGAIN! We will take back the Senate, and we will keep the House! Let’s work hard to make it all happen.

I ordered the book and hope to have it on my door step later today! “Want to be happy? “It is all about the giving,” nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt contends in his new book, The Happiest Life: Seven Gifts, Seven Givers, and the Secret to Genuine Success, “that which you have received from God and that which you give in his name.” “And if you have forgotten that,” Hewitt writes, “recall it. If you have failed, start again. If you are happy, be thankful. And if you aren’t, you can be.”” Living the Happiest Life

Pray! “A new year now begins. Let us hope the collapse of the administration’s agenda brings just enough pain to teach a new generation the benefits of small government, free markets and the American way. Let us hope Obama’s well-deserved and self-constructed humiliation is evident enough to remind his once-worshipful followers to put not their trust in princes. Let us hope that the right can avoid the circular firing squad and make inroads in both houses at the midterm election. Let us hope we can begin to turn the big ship of this great state around.” New Year’s Wishes and Resolutions

I REFUSE to be a subject. “In our two-party system, everything depends on whether the Republicans step up to the plate and act like responsible adults who understand that Obamacare represents a historic crossroads that will determine what kind of people we are going to be, for this generation and generations yet unborn — citizens or subjects.” A New Year and Old Problems

We will prevail. “This year we will see if America is still a center-right country, or if Obama’s two terms will mark a historic shift to the left. History and recent events give cause for optimism, subject, of course, to unforeseen events.” 2014: Year of Decision

A free people losing their freedom. “Is this the kind of stuff a free people should put up with? What kind of twisted mind comes up with language and policies that college-educated and otherwise successful people can’t understand? Even some people at the IRS have been notoriously unhelpful in answering questions about this foreign language known as the U.S. tax code, but if taxpayers get something wrong, they must still pay for their mistakes with a penalty and interest.” Vote like the government has its hand in your pocket, because it does

If more people knew this, I don’t think they’d be in love with bigger government. “Government produces nothing. It creates no wealth. Yet the District of Columbia is ranked as the richest area in the nation. Politicians and bureaucrats shriek that business people are “greedy.” But facts show differently. Imagine voting yourself a raise and millions of dollars in allowances. Imagine 5-figure bonuses. Lifetime pensions to which you contribute only 1.3%. Imagine opening 3 or 4 offices around the state for which you pay not a dime.” The Trillion-Plus Heist

America falls Leftward as the rest of the world wakes up to the perils of Leftism. “The rule of the radical left in the United States is very much an outlier in the rest of the First World where conservative and center-right parties predominate. The conventional First World response to the economic crisis has been to cut spending and reform welfare, while the United States has spent more money than ever before and expanded welfare.” A Left-Wing America Stands Alone

Good bye to 2013 and may 2014 bring an end to America’s slide toward socialism! “2013 was the year the Progressive’s raised their flag, the year they truly revealed themselves and their agenda on the national scale and made it known that everything was subordinate to the greater good. In lying to the country, and in violating Constitutional rights, the Progressives revealed themselves willing to do whatever it takes to move forward their agenda in support of the greater good. 2014 is where they will seek to press the advance, and attempt to stave off the Tea Party counter attack that will inevitably come.” 2013: The year of the Progressive

Stop the statists! “But even as light bulbs vanish and our health-care system descends into catastrophe, understand these as proof that liberalism does not belong in the universe as it exists. And with that we enter 2014, a year of complexity. The same as all those that came before it.” The Progressive Agenda Crashes into Complexity

“Nowhere on that list is there authority for Congress to tax and spend for: Medicare, Social Security, public education, farm subsidies, bank and business bailouts, food stamps and thousands of other activities that account for roughly two-thirds of the federal budget. Neither is there authority for congressional mandates to citizens about what type of health insurance they must purchase, how states and people may use their land, the speed at which they can drive, whether a library has wheelchair ramps, and the gallons of water used per toilet flush.” Limited Government Solves Constitutional Violations

Hiding the fall. “After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution. Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president.” Obama pollster: Reporters should stop covering polls in 2014

Don’t hold your breath. “Maybe someday an honest journalist or writer will give us the complete story about Barack Hussein Obama and his (charitably) improbable rise to political power — but he or she will have to weather not only all the roadblocks the Obama team has thrown up to those pursuing the president’s full background (for FactCheck’s rather narrow definition of “sealed records,” go here), but also the ire of the Axelrod generation of journalists who control what’s left of the large institutions and aren’t about to stand by quietly while any debunking or revisionism takes place. The Obama administration is the Boomers’ nirvana, so they will not go gentle into that good night.” The Enigma of Barack Obama

The press as Obama lobbyists. “At a time when Mr. Obama is increasingly engaged in extraconstitutional and unconstitutional behavior, a free press performing the function envisioned for it by the Framers is more necessary than ever. In its absence, there’s every reason to think that not only will the mainstream media be poodled, but the country will go to the dogs.” GAFFNEY: When the press is a poodle

Can we stop the Liberals from abandoning their Blue states for Red states please? “The left has long sought to nationalize government, which means a subordination of the states. In the meantime, liberals aren’t blind to the advantages red states enjoy over blue states, in terms of siphoning off blue states’ productive citizens and enterprises. Liberals see where many businesses choose to relocate. They appreciate that red states are often more affordable to Americans.” Red versus Blue States: A Divide Worth Having

Pandering. “The Democrats aren’t mistaken to think they can trick the Republicans to force them to defend economic positions that are fiscally wise but unpopular, such as opposing the minimum wage increase or not extending unemployment benefits. Their mistake lies in misunderstanding the far-reaching impact of the president’s signature health-care plan will have on vast numbers of voters.” Minimum Wage Won’t Save Dems in 2014

More on Obama pandering. “Here’s some free counsel to Messrs. Israel and Pfeiffer: When the history of the 2014 mid-term elections is written, the Affordable Care Act will be a dominant, and maybe the dominant, issue while the minimum wage will not merit even an asterisk. The latter is hardly a topic that is on the hearts and minds of the American people. You can find here and here recent polls from the Gallup organization listing the top concerns of the American people. The minimum wage doesn’t show up; and, in fact, more people are concerned with America becoming a socialist country than are concerned that the minimum wage is too low.” Can Midnight Basketball Be Far Behind?

A follow on to the above post. “Clearly, the Obama administration’s interest is not in combatting discrimination in housing; its interest is imposing a preordained view of the proper racial and ethnic mix for neighborhoods. And I mean all neighborhoods. For as Rob Astorino, the executive of Westchester County, says, “the battle for zoning in Westchester County [will be] the battle everywhere” — a battle that is “about changing every block, every neighborhood to the viewpoint of federal bureaucrats at HUD.”” Obama moves to impose his vision of how we should live, Part Two

A response to Obama’s attempt to impose his vision of how we should live on us… “I say: BRING. IT. ON. Not just in Westchester County, NY, but in ALL of blue state suburbia, baby! Nowhere is more racially and economically segregated; in fact, that’s the whole point of these suburbs in the first place! Who doesn’t know that?” How Obama Thinks We Should Live: A Reader Responds

The war on senior citizens MUST be stopped. “We don’t yet know what those rules will be. But you can be sure that the vast cost overruns of Obamacare will mean extreme pressure to cut medical treatment, especially for people the government deems unworthy of investment. Those Obamacare navigators have to be paid, and there are thousands of new IRS agents who don’t come cheap. So grandpa and grandma will just get pain pills and be told to lie down and die. With the likes of Ezekiel Emanuel offering advice, human life is not going to be the first priority.” The biggest Obamacare whopper of all

The war on the middle class must stop! “What is the most sickening thing to me is that we have been forced into the Health Insurance Marketplace’s Exchange. We wanted to continue our coverage through BSBC and pay as we always had been. But, we found out that option would not be affordable under the new Act, which is how we were forced into the Exchange. Furthermore, not only were we forced into the Exchange, but then forced again to submit an application to ALL Kids for our children. I just don’t understand how we go from being hard working middle class family who provides everything for our family to where we are today. I feel like everything that my husband and I have worked hard for is for nothing.” Alabama Mom’s ObamaCare Horror Story Gives America a Glimpse of Government-Run Healthcare

We’ve got a terrific line up for our annual Christmas program. First up will be the Ignite Barbershop Quartet. Ignite began singing together after a quartet matching party in November 2015. They are all Champion members of Region 21’s Scottsdale Chorus and they will be singing for us!

After lunch, Congressional District 6 congressman, Representative David Schweikart, will talk to us about what’s happening in Washington DC, and provide us with a status of the Tax Bill working its way through the House of Representatives and Senate.

Finally, member Julia Graham will install our new 2018/2019 officers. We look forward to seeing you and be sure to bring a friend or two or three!